Routine business

Institute of Mathematics was one of the first in AS Siberian Branch (formed in 1957). A.P. Ershov was invited to head its department of programming. In 1959 it was decided to organize in the institute the computing center, which became separate institute

The department was headed by I.V.Pottosin and consisted of two laboratories - laboratory of system programming (headed by Pottosin) and laboratory of theoretical programming (headed by V.E.Kotov). Department of programming was part of the Computing Center